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| 15 JUN 2010 at 4:32pm |
CrisGerSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | it is an adventure for sure.
give the graphics time. Explore a bit. BTW there is a closet in your office that it will be helpful to open. the lock pick process is pretty easy once you get used to it. you click on the numbers to see if that setting is good, if not, try up or down and the indicator will indicate if you are closer or farther away, hit the space key to try it each time..
the characters are blocky but the world itself is done very nicely with those limitations and the voice acting makes up for a lot.
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| 15 JUN 2010 at 4:34pm |
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Anachronox Manual
http://www.filefront.com/15856631/Anachoronox-Patches-3.0.rar/
All the patches
do officlal patch 1.1 and 1.2 first, then do the community patches that start with 44
just takes a sec and will make sure things run right.
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| 15 JUN 2010 at 5:12pm |
MaumPrivate Detective
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Status : Offline | To me the graphics are kinda GK3 in their blocky-ness but not off putting.
Definitely worth persevering. I've just reached the fighting arena/place for some much needed practice and have set the game at 'easy' as I can't be bothered hunting down save spaces. (that's the reason I stopped with Nomad Soul, another game I was really interested in playing).
Currently playing: Dragon Age Origins, Dishonored, The Witcher, Fallout 3, Deponia
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| 15 JUN 2010 at 5:35pm |
HalcyonSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | Are the graphics on a par with like Blade Runner--that bad?
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| 15 JUN 2010 at 7:11pm |
CrisGerSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | much better than Blade Runner, this is a fully 3D world, just they used textures to complete figures and things but as i said they are detailed and dynmaic so there is really a lot there.
Nomad soul is wonderful, i can help you with saves and fixes if needed or a good walkthrough. Both Omikiron and Anachronox are two classics that lie on the other side of the graphics upgrade divide but the quality of both make them worth it imho. You guys know how picky i am about graphics and visuals..... but there is much for both that makes them special and beautiful.
Wackmaster's is a fun place, and really the fighting is very forgiving in the game, even with lots of foes...and it is fun, the visuals are always rewarding and the special effects great.
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| 15 JUN 2010 at 7:49pm |
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Status : Offline | Not sure if this should actually rather go in the "other games" section...
Anachronox is really a mix of many game play types. During large portions if the game, you walk around, talk to people & solve puzzles, with no fighting involved at all. Then you have the fighting sequences that plays out a bit like the ones in final fantasy (but with no random encounters, thank god), and there are also some arcade sequences mixed in for good measure. I would still classify it as a CRPG, but it is not a pure CRPG.
And save often when you reach sender station. That place is rather buggy. You should in particular save after you have hacked each console.
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| 15 JUN 2010 at 8:32pm |
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Status : Offline | Thati si good to know, i just got there last night, it is a beautifully done area so far, as polished as any modern game in that region. And the detail continues to be wonderful and fun. Even get to meet a "rock group' based on the Beatles
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| 15 JUN 2010 at 10:00pm |
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Status : Offline | Hey that does sound appealing. I'm still not sure if I can handle the graphics. I look at the screenies again.
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| 16 JUN 2010 at 1:21am |
| Deleted User | Originally Posted By TAS (15 JUN 2010 5:56pm)
Man I think the prices are a bit steep on Amazon for such an old, pixelated game -- $20 (plus shipping--usually $5) new?
I suppose I was lucky as I was able to borrow the game from a friend. This is by no means the first time I've thought about this, but I have asked myself before whether or not I should have just gone out and purchased it when I first heard about it. What a silly idea. Who in their right mind would ever go out and spend $20 or $25 on some old RPG hybrid something or whatever. (Heck, at the time I was confident that RPG meant something regarding game content being rated between R and PG) [img]http://justadventure.com/yabb/Smilies/shaking_head.gif [/img] I look at it differently now. Sure, I can always buy an adventure game that I really want for the obligatory $20 and if I really milk it I just may be able to squeeze 20 hours out of it. I estimate that comes out to be roughly $1/hr. If it’s a decent game (by no guarantee at all these days) I consider the hourly distribution cost to be reasonable. And now, well, what if I had paid something for the game. If it really had cost me $0.25/hr to play Anachronox, I would have had just as much fun and it would certainly have been well worth the fee. [img]http://justadventure.com/yabb/Smilies/smiley.gif[/img]
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| 16 JUN 2010 at 2:02am |
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Status : Offline | Well that's a good way to think about, CB. I'll probably end up getting it. The appeal of a strong story is too much to resist, given the praise mediocre games get with great graphics. Is my time worth $1 per hour of entertainment to be disappointed? No. But if the story is compelling and substantive and brings benefits, regardless of the looks, it would be worth it. Much like women.
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| 16 JUN 2010 at 4:22am |
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Status : Offline | It is quite literate in nature actually, almost like a 3D book, but with lots of wonderful environment thrown in, it is hard to describe its appeal really partly it has the feel of a renegade game, there is lots of tongue in cheek humor without being banal or cheap or slapstick, and there are some remarkable expansion on a sci fi theme that i had never thought about...for instance, Boots has a mobile small robot helper named PAL... you can play as PAL or any of the party of members...and as PAL you can have conversations with other robots in the game, i found a Robotic mesiah in the landing docks area, it actually has some remarkable philosophy to share about the view of humans from a robot point of view, .... stuff like that enlivens the game and makes it more than just a curiosity...it is downright fun.
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| 16 JUN 2010 at 5:24am |
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[img]
http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/5710/senderstation1.jpg[/img]
[img]http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/4272/senderstation2.jpg[/img]
Waiting area....
[img]http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/695/interplanetarygatearea.jpg[/img]
Ticket area...
[img]http://img682.imageshack.us/img682/1136/senderstation4.jpg[/img]
Commerce area and Interplanetary Trade and Conference Centre..
[img]http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/263/senderconfrencecentre.jpg[/img]
[img]http://img576.imageshack.us/img576/4711/paytopray.jpg[/img]
Pay2Pray multidenominational Religion service area...pay and you get to commune with the artifacts of your choice...
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| 16 JUN 2010 at 10:45am |
| Deleted User | My game's graphics doesn't even look a fraction this good, and you know I have a rig at least as good as yours, Chris. I don't get it. How do you get your Anachronox graphics looking so good? Mine is so bad that some people can hardly be distinguished as humans. They're also a lot more wishy-washy and fuzzy.
..and my areas and backgrounds are just one muddy mess.
MM- it must be that Nhancer thingie you mentioned in the other thread. I'll give it a go, and report back if I see an improvement.
Btw, my completely unpatched vanilla version of the game seems to play fine in XP. It just doesn't look so good.
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| 16 JUN 2010 at 2:34pm |
MaumPrivate Detective
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Status : Offline | Well I tried the patches with Vista and it totally screwed up my game.
I reinstalled without patches and it's working fine.
My graphics aren't as neat as CrisGer's though. I might need to tweak the resolution a bit.
Loving it so far although having gone down the tenements and dozens of lifts I am now hopelessly lost. I need one of those automaps robots!
Currently playing: Dragon Age Origins, Dishonored, The Witcher, Fallout 3, Deponia
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| 16 JUN 2010 at 4:45pm |
CrisGerSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | Traveller the patches fix the graphics too. It really can and does look great. If you follow the steps for the Nhancer it should work fine, as we both have Nvida cards. Sorry for the tweaking needed but it is worth the effort. Let me know if you need help with any of it, as i am trying to gather data on all of this to help others too.
trav..also be sure you chose the high resolution setting in the menu set up for the game too
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| 16 JUN 2010 at 4:47pm |
CrisGerSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | that is part of the fun Maum, getting lost. I was too. I will give you a tip but dont use it until after you actually learn your way around
There are Taxis you can use, that are quite reasonable.... but for now, just keep moving around, you get the "feel' for it and that all is part of the fun.
IMagine what they had to do to learn their way around that planetoid
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| 16 JUN 2010 at 4:48pm |
| Deleted User | The biggest problem I encountered running the game on Vista was that I could not get it to work at the higher resolution 1280 X 960. It would only work at 640 X 480 which is kind of a drag so I ended up going back to XP. At the higher resolution the graphics are very sharp albeit the models are blocky. Someone said a while back that they were able to get it working correctly on Vista. I think it might have been Terry but I can't be sure. As for those of you running XP it seems strange that the patches don’t seem to be working. :-/
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| 16 JUN 2010 at 5:04pm |
MaumPrivate Detective
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Status : Offline | Having adjusted the gamma and switched to high res in the menu the graphics are pretty good to me! Just found Frank's flophouse... The story begins I guess- my first quest.
Currently playing: Dragon Age Origins, Dishonored, The Witcher, Fallout 3, Deponia
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| 16 JUN 2010 at 5:08pm |
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Status : Offline | Well i hope ppl will keep trying with the patches as they do fix a lot and one of them adds the taxi service which is useful once you learn your way around.
Yep, Franks is the beginning of the adventures have fun! and you do have to pick the lock to get into see the lady youare there to see. She wont mind. I guess Frank does not give out keys.
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| 16 JUN 2010 at 5:22pm |
CrisGerSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | Just to give you all a feel of how Anachronox is built, it is a worldlett inside a sphere, filled with some form of gaseous atmosphere..so you acutually launch from Anachronox via the Travel centre, and then have to leave the outer sphere before you get into Space... Sender station is a neat little satelite that has the interplanetary shuttle port on it near by...
pics will show how this works....and you can look down and see the surface of Anachronox itself...it is divided up into sections that are moving all the time...so the city is re arranging itself constantly
Shuttle just about to launch from surface of Anachronox....with a view of the city skyline...
[img]http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/2638/onthesurfaceofanachrono.jpg[/img]
Launch and rising up into the inner atomosphere of the outer sphere...the circle in the sky is one of the ports to Outer Space thru the outer shell
[img]http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/6691/leavinganachronox2.jpg[/img]
Looking back down at the surface of Anachronox city...
[img]http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/210/climbingupfromanachrono.jpg[/img]
[img]http://img693.imageshack.us/img693/5443/surfaceofanachronox.jpg[/img]
Looking back at Anachronox from the outer shell and the shuttle in flight..
[img]http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/8038/leavinganacronox.jpg[/img]
and a view outside of the shuttle heading from the outer shell to Sender Station....
[img]http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/6199/tosenderstation.jpg[/img]
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| 16 JUN 2010 at 5:43pm |
CrisGerSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | About the patches, i had not read the older thread and realized people were having trouble finding the patches. I made a package of all of them and the link works, i just tried it again...
http://www.filefront.com/15856631/Anachoronox-Patches-3.0.rar/
has all the patches
These are the patches:
Official Ion Storm Patches:
1.01 fixes bugs in the game
1.02 adds editor and mod maker
Unofficial patches (made by Chinaman" (Joey)..ex staff member and community member)"
44, 45, 46
it is confusing because he named his patch 1.02 also with build 44, 45, 46.
If you add them in this order you will be fine:
PATCH ORDER>..........
ION Patch 1.01
ION Anox Tool Set (1.02)
Unofficial Anox Joey Patches 44-46
let me know if you have any questions please
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| 17 JUN 2010 at 2:32am |
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Status : Offline | Thanks, Chris. When I get this game...IF I get it...you've been most helpful.
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| 17 JUN 2010 at 2:49am |
CrisGerSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | Happy to be of service. It is a trip down memory lane game quality wise in some ways..but a fun romp in a remarkable world and really a nice diversion.
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| 17 JUN 2010 at 8:05am |
CrisGerSchattenjger
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Status : Offline | When you get to Sender Station be sure to talk to Everyone! there are important hints from many people about side quests...and clues
some wonderful adventures.
And Sunder...well you will just have to see it to believe it..one of the most beautiful environments sci fi style that I have ever seen in any media.... just amazing...
[img]http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/1412/sunderatriumlightsculpu.jpg[/img]
[img]http://img24.imageshack.us/img24/7671/spaceportwalkway1.jpg[/img]
Sunder Space Port
[img]http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/8008/approachingsunder.jpg[/img]
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